Roll-paper holder and cutter



(No Model.)

J. B. LAWTON.

ROLL PAPER HOLDER AND CUTTER.

No. 423,565. Patented Mar. 18, 1890.

UNITE STATES PATENT- OFFICE.

JAMES B. LAWTON, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

ROLL-PAPER HOLDER AND CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,565, dated March 18, 1890.

I lpplication filed September 26, 1888. Serial No. 286,425. (No model.)

, Cutters, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to that class of wrapping-paper holders now in general use in stores, in which the paper is in a continuous roll and is drawn and cut therefrom in sheets of proper size as required for use; and it has for its object the improvement in the construction of this class of devices.

The novelty of my invention will be here- -with set forth, and specifically pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of a roll-paper holder embodying my invention. Fig.- 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same with modifications. Figs. 4. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are enlarged details to'be referred to more particularly hereinafter.

The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical partsin all the figures.

A is the usual bed-plate, upon which are secured the two uprights B, braced by the top piece G, in the usual or any suitable manner. The uprights B have recessed lugs a (see Fig. 6) upon'their inner sides, in which the endsof the spindle D, carrying the paperroll E, rest, thereby enabling the roll to be inserted from either side, which, in the case of heavy rolls, and owing to the sometimes fixed position of the holder, is a great convenience.

The spindle D is passed through the usual centering-plugs F, insert-ed in the roll in the customary manner.

The knife-bar G can be made quite light, and it is carried upon the upper ends of two supporting guide-rods H, whose lower ends are inserted in vertically-inclined apertures Z), Figs. 7 and 8, extending through the uprights 13. Under one and the preferred form of construction (see Fig. 10) the upper end of each guide-rod H is threaded and inserted through a slightly enlarged or countersunk aperture 0 in the end of the knife and has a ball-weight I, made in any ornamental. shape desired, screwed upon it. The knife is thus confined at each end between the ball I and a swell or collar d upon the rod H, but with sufficient play to enable the knifeto rise and fall at either end to follow any inequalities in the roll, as will be readily understood. The balls I serve to hold the knife snugly to the surface of the roll, and, if desired, other balls may be secured to the lower projecting ends of the rods H, as where very tough or heavy paper is employed; or, instead of or in connection with the upper balls, springs J, Fig. 3, may be secured at their lower ends to the bed A and have their upper ends removablyconnected to the lower ends of the rods H.

As a means for holding the knife to the paper and preventing its being lifted during the act of cutting off the paper each rod H has serrations or notches upon its under lower side, and the aperture b is vertically enlarged at its lower end, (see Fig. 7,) and an engagingplate e, secured to or formed integral with the upright B, projects slightly above the lower edge of the aperture 1) in such manner that when the projecting end of the paper is lifted to out it off the rods H will be tilted and their lower serrated ends will be caught and engaged by the plates 6, thereby locking the knife, as will be readily understood. As

iion of the devices just described could be reversed, as seen in Fig. 8, to accomplish the same result. will be no necessity for the plates e and the serrations in the rods H, nor need the rods H have any other than longitudinal play in the apertures 27.

As a means for rotating the roll E to bring the severed edge out from under the knife, I construct one of the plugs F (see Figs. at and 5) of metal, with a ratchet f formed near its outer end and with a peripheral groove 9. Loosely encompassing the outer end of this plugis an arm or handle K, (see Figs. 1,2, 3, and 5,) provided with a spring-dog h, which WVhere light paper is used thereemployed to hold the handle up and to return it after it is depressed. As seen in Fig. 1,the handle is bent out to clear the end of the knife.

Instead of the dog and ratchet any known form of clutch mechanism may be employed, and in Fig. 9I have shown one of such forms, where aballj is confined in a cam-recess 7c in the bore of the handle and engages when the handle is pressed down with the periphery of the plug, as will be readily understood.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim 1. In a paper-roll holder, the combination of the paper-roll and its supports provided with the vertically-inclined guides made larger at one end than at the other, the rods inserted through and free to move in said guides and having serrated lower portions,

the catches. arranged to engage with the serrations on said rods when the latter are tilted by the severing of the paper from the roll, and the'cutter-blade carried on the upper ends of said rods and resting on the surface of the paper-roll, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2.. In a paper-roll holder, the combination, with the paper-roll, the outterblade, and sup ports 'for said roll and blade, of a handle pivoted substantially concentric with the axis of the paper-roll and connected thereto and arranged to turn the same when moved in one direction, but free to be moved in the opposite direction without turning the roll, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In a paper-roll holder, the combination, with the paper-roll, the cutter-blade, and supports for said roll and blade, of a handle pivoted substantially concentric with the axis of the paper-roll and connected thereto by ratchet-and-pawl devices and arranged to turn the same when moved in one direction, but free to be moved in the opposite direction without turning the roll, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. In a paper-roll holder, the combinationof the paper-roll and its supports provided with the vertically-inclined guides, the rods inserted through and free to move in said guides, the cutter-blades secured to the'up to be moved in the opposite direction without turning the roll, substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. The combination of the paper-roll E, supports B, vertically-inclined guides 19, rods H, passed through said guides and provided with the collars d near their upper ends, the weights I, secured on the upper ends of the rods H, and the cutter-blade G, carried on the upper ends of said rods and loosely confined between the Weights I and collarsd and resting on the surface of the roll E, substantially as and for the purpose described.

7 6. The combination of the paper roll E, supports B, vertically-inclined guides 11, rods H, passed through said guides and provided with' the lower serrated portions, the catches a, normally free from but arranged to engage said serrated portions when the rods H are tilted in their guides by the severing of the paper, and the cutter-blade G, carried by the rods H and resting on the surface of the paper-roll, substantially as and for the purpose described.

7. The combination of the paperroll E, supports 13, vertically-inclined guides 19, rods H, passed through said guides and provided with the lower serrated portions, the catches c, normally free from but arranged to engage said serrated portions when the rods H are tilted in their guides by the severing of the paper, and the Weights I and, cutter-blade G, carried by the rods H, substantially as and for the purpose described.

8. The combination, with the paper-roll, the

cutter-blade, and supports for said roll and blade, of the handle K, connected to the pa- .IOO

per-roll by ratchet-and-pawl devices and arranged to move the roll with it when turned in a forward direction and to move. in the opposite direction without turning the roll, substantially as and for the purpose described.

9. The combination, Wi h the paper-roll, the cutter-blade, and supports forsaid roll and blade, of the handle K, connected to the paper-roll by ratchet-and-pawl devices, and the resetting-spring L, substantially as and for the purpose described.

10. The combination of the paper-roll E, supports B, provided with guides 19, rods H, passed through said guides and provided near their upper ends with the collars d, the cutter-blade G, provided with the aperturesc, fitting loosely on the upper ends-of the rods H, above the collars d, and nuts or equivalent devices on the upper ends of the rods H for holding the cutter-blade G thereon, substantially as and for the purpose described.

JAMES B. LAWTON. Witnesses: I

CHARLES BILLOU, EDWARD REGTOR. 

